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Meme

A meme (/miːm/ ⓘ; MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation (mimesis) from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through…

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Etymology

Origins

Memetic lifecycle: transmission, retention

Memes as discrete units

Evolutionary influences on memes

Memetics

Applications

Religion

Architectural memes

Internet culture

Politics

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Meme

Nodes185
Edges184
Triples187
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010811
Components1

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Meme

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related to External links · 26
Meme → Article Meme, Bülow, Christopher, Counter-meme, Dawkins, Dawkins's, Enzyklopädie Philosophie, Evolution, Godwin, Journal, Jürgen Mittelstraß, Memes, Memetics, Metzler, Mike, November, Oxford Union, Retrieved, Richard Dawkins, Stuttgart/Weimar
related to After Dawkins: Role of physical media · 17
Meme → Alternatively, Daniel Dennett, David Hull, Dawkins, Dennett, For, He, However, Initially, Internet, Internet Memetic's, Limor Shifman, Regardless, She, Shifman, Susan Blackmore, Thus
related to Architectural memes · 11
Meme → Architectural, Architecture, Dawkins, He, Images, In, Nikos Salingaros, Salingaros, Taking, Theory, They
related to Criticism of meme theory · 11
Meme → Daniel, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Dennett, DNA, For, In, Luis Benitez-Bribiesca, One, Principal, Questions, This
related to Politics · 11
Meme → At, Brazil, Disinformation, In, In Chagas, Internet, Memes, Overall, Some, The, United States
related to Memes as discrete units · 10
Meme → Beethoven's, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Dawkins, John, She, Susan Blackmore, The, This, While, Wilkins
has application · 9
Meme → Bruce Edmonds, Daniel Dennett, Joseph Poulshock, One, Opinions, Others, Proponents, Robert Aunger, Susan Blackmore
related to Dawkins · 8
Meme → Cavalli-Sforza, Cloak, Cullen, Dawkins, For Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, The, The Selfish Gene
related to Etymology · 8
Meme → Ancient Greek, British, Dawkins, Examples, IPA-label-small, Richard Dawkins, The, The Selfish Gene
related to Memetics · 8
Meme → Austrian, Based, Dawkin's, German, Memetics, The Selfish Gene, Thus, While

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memes cultural ideas evolution dawkins gene may transmission theory memetics one evolutionary idea internet culture unit biological imitation religious genes

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Memeis ashortening0.90text
fadsinstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
hysteriainstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
copycat crimeinstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
and copycat suicide exemplify memes seen as the contagious imitation of ideasinstance ofSocial contagions0.80text
yawninginstance ofObservers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena0.80text
laughinginstance ofObservers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena0.80text
which they consider innateinstance ofObservers distinguish the contagious imitation of memes from instinctively contagious phenomena0.80text
eye colorinstance ofshe notes evolution selects for the gene for features0.80text
a video or a pictureinstance ofsingular informational objects which spread with a particular rate and veracity0.80text
genesinstance ofand that evolution does not apply only to organic elements0.80text
hammering a nailinstance ofTake for example the case of the transmission of a simple skill0.80text

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